Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Miss Dorothy Steele, British Red Cross Society & Order of St. John of Jerusalem

British War and Victory Medals (D. Steele, B.R.C. & St. J.J.) Princess Christian Hospital Badge, reverse inscribed, ‘Dorothy Steel, Aug 1906-Aug. 1909’, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1905, with brooch bar, in case of issue; Belgian Medal, ‘L’ Armee a ses Infirmieres’, reverse impressed ‘Steele D.’, 28mm., silver, medals nearly extremely fine (lot) £140-180

With riband bar for the British War and Victory Medals and the French Special Insignia for Nurses - see O.M.R.S. Journal, Autumn 1991 for the article, ‘L’Insignie Spécial for Nurses’, by Norman Gooding (extract with lot). The award is not confirmed.

With B.R.C.S. & O. St. J. Chevron Certificate named to Miss D. Steele, as a Nurse at No. 2 Ards-Belae Hospital, Calais - awarded one blue chevron for service from 27 October 1918.

Also with a large photograph album containing many family and nursing service photographs; also a portrait photograph of Nurse Dorothy Steele.

Together with lapel badges (14) including: Red Cross; Red Cross & St. John, ‘C.H.S.S.’, enamelled; British Red Cross and Order of St. John, bronze; Veteran Reserve London; Friend of St. George’s Chapel; W.V.S. (2); A.R.P.; Girl Guide. The medals, riband bar and two of the badges in wooden glass-fronted case.